Rugby In Plume Announce A New Plan

RUGBY COUNCIL CHAMBER BELONGS TO US SAY CITIZENS CLAIMING THE SAME RIGHTS AND ACCESS AS RUGBY CEMENT:

RUGBY COUNCILLORS DISPLAY COMPLETE LACK OF INTEREST!

RUGBY IN PLUME TO HOST PRIVATE BRIEFING, IN COUNCIL CHAMBER AND REQUEST EXACTLY SAME TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS CEMEX.

IF NOT - WHY NOT?

RUGBY IN PLUME REPLY TO RBC.
16th June to: Carol Bradford (legal), and ALL 48 Rugby Councillors

"Dear Mrs Bradford

Rugby in Plume permission to hold Secret Briefing in Council Chamber

Thank you very much for your very explicit email.

1. Then perhaps, as you rule out all and any type and auspices of "normal Council meetings" under which there is any applicable Code of Conduct, and Regulatory control, then you can inform Rugby people under exactly what "category of meeting" this June 2nd Cemex "informal" meeting was held?

2. How much did Cemex pay to make use of the Town Hall Council Chamber?

3. Rugby in Plume would like to hold a "Briefing" for the Councillors and other invitees, using the Town Hall Council Chamber. We are sorry for the short notice, but it is URGENT. Can you advise what process we need to go through to "obtain use of this facility" for our very important, secret, "Briefing", for which we will give no Agenda, nor list of invitees, nor background papers, nor attendance list, nor Minutes?

4. How many officers can we have to work at the meeting?

5. Can we take it that Karen Stone will chair it for us please?

6. Please advise, with the utmost urgency, of the earliest date you can make this suitably located, excellent, Publicly Funded Facility, available to us, on behalf of Rugby people.

I am sure we can rely on Rugby Borough Council officers, (whose wages we pay), to facilitate and help the people of Rugby with this important "plan we have for Rugby town", and if, in the words of Gordon Collett, you " do not get hysterical about this, we can be successful and we can get this through!"

Yours sincerely.
Rugby in Plume

From: Carol Bradford [mailto:carol.bradford@rugby.gov.uk]
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 12:14 PM
Cc: Sean Lawson; Andrew Gabbitas
Subject: RE: complaint against RBC and various Councillors neglecting duty

Dear Mrs Pallikaropoulos,

Your email of 15th June addressed to Andrew Gabbitas has been passed through to me as he is away from the office today.

I would answer the points you make as follows, using your numbering throughout:

The meeting that you refer to (on 2nd June) was not a formal meeting of either the Council, Cabinet, a committee or a panel of the Council. There was no obligation on any member to attend and if some did not attend I do not consider that they have breached any Code of Conduct or other legal obligation that they might have. If you wish to complain to the Standards Board about a councillors’ failure to attend this meeting then you need to contact them direct. Their contact details are:

The Standards Board for England

1st Floor

Cottons Centre

Cottons Lane

LONDON SE1 2 QG

Tel: 0845 078 8181

enquiries @standardsboard.co.uk

www.standardsboard.co.uk

Please bear in mind that the Standards Board only investigates allegations that councillors have breached the Code of Conduct for Councillors.

Complaints about a councillor’s alleged failure to declare an interest should be addressed to the Standards Board. However, I should point out that as this was not a formal meeting of the Council, nor of the RCCF, there was no requirement to declare any interests and I do not think, on the face of it, that there has been any breach of the Code of Conduct.

See my answer to 2 above.

You say that you will be complaining about the misappropriation of funds and misuse of public money in facilitating this meeting. No doubt when you make this complaint, you will provide more information about why you consider that there has been a misappropriation of funds, preferably expanding on what legislation, code of guidance or other regulations the Council has failed to follow. As it stands at present, your allegation is too vague for me to investigate further.
Yours sincerely,


Carol Bradford

Head of Legal and Administration

Rugby Borough Council

tel: 01788 533510

RIP WROTE on 15th JUNE asking WHY ONLY 15 OUT OF 48 COUNCILLORS ATTENDED THE SECRET BRIEFING?

Dear Mr Gabbitas

We have heard from two of the Councillors that they were away on school holidays, and one said he was not invited by RBC.

Any other excuses? It would seem that Rugby Councillors have a duty to the electorate, but failed in this duty, and appear to take the money from the people, without apparently earning it, and without carrying out their obligations.


1. I would like to make a Formal Complaint on behalf of Rugby in Plume and the People of Rugby, and to state that the Councillors are not attending properly to their civic duties, and not fulfilling the Contract they have entered into with Rugby people.


I would like to complain to the Standards Board about these Councillors who neither apologised, nor attended the Briefing on 2nd June.


2. I would also like to make a Formal Complaint about Gordon Collett who failed to declare a pecuniary interest, as he held his Cemex mini-bus keys, and spoke up heavily in favour of being "successful and getting this through". I believe he should not even have been at the meeting, much less spoken up in favour of turning Rugby into a waste incinerating centre for London's household and commercial waste.


3. Carolyn Robbins as (Chair of RCCF and Enironment Portfolio Holder) also failed to declare an interest as she should have.

Can you please help me with these complaints? What section do they come under?


4. I will also be complaining that RBC misappropriated funds, and mis-spent and squandered Public Money, and held a Secret meeting, to promote an incineration company, all at the residents' expense.

Thank you.

Lillian RIP